You’re Not Too Busy—You’re Just Distracted, Paper360º September/October 2025

Picture this: You have established a plan for a new reliability initiative. The kickoff meetings have been held; the buzzwords are flying around. But on the plant floor? Crickets. Your reliability improvement project is slipping through the cracks. Why does this happen? It is easy to lose sight of the bigger picture in favor of tasks that can be dealt with right now.

IDCON recently participated in a preventive maintenance (PM) project at a paper mill in New York. Our responsibility was to lead the documentation of PM activities. Our first recommendation was to review the processes in the mill and then assign experienced maintenance people to do inspections right away (instead of beginning with documentation rounds). Why? Simple. If inspections start on Day One, we get quicker results than waiting for the documentation process.

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